DEA Whistleblower Case Exposes “War on Drugs” as “War of Pretense"

[Minstrel Boy]

I think this is an important story: a DEA officer's 10-year case against the CIA - alleging that the agency thwarted his mission to eradicate Burmese opium production and illegally spied on him - has been dismissed because a court has found for the government that his evidence is protected by "State Secret Privilege." Shades of Sibel Edmonds. But after all, remember what she said about drugs, arms and oil intersecting.


DEA Agent’s Whistleblower Case Exposes the "War on Drugs" as a "War of Pretense"
Agent’s Sealed Legal Case Dismissed on National Security Grounds; Details Leaked to Narco News

September 7, 2004

Former DEA agent Richard Horn has been fighting the U.S. government for the past 10 years trying to prove the CIA illegally spied on him as part of an effort to thwart his mission in the Southeast Asian country of Burma.

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After languishing in the federal court system for some 10 years, Horn’s case was dismissed in late July of this year after crucial evidence in the case was suppressed on national security grounds. Because the entire court record had been sealed by the judge, no one would have even known that Horn’s case was torpedoed, if it were not for the fact that an anonymous source leaked the judge’s ruling to Narco News.

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Sources within DEA contend Horn’s claims against the CIA and State Department are on target, adding that the Department of Justice went as far as to claim that no U.S. citizen is protected from eavesdropping by its government when overseas.

"Horn’s whole story is true," contends one DEA source. "They spied on his home, and the Department of Justice defended the CIA’s actions."

http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1063.html

[mhr]

1. We Have Crossed The Rubicon - Citizenship Has Meaning No More

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[Nambe]

2. Nothing new here unfortunately.

From the union pipefitter in prison to the small town police dept., the war on drugs is the laughing stock of the UN and every nation with a newpaper.

[donco6]

3. Any idiot can see the WOD is a sham.

I live in a medium-size city. I would bet that if you asked me to find some drugs, you could simply name what you want and I could find out where you could get it within 8 hours. So what has the War on Drugs accomplished? Have drugs been wiped out? Hell no! In fact, with crystal meth manufacture so popular, I'd be surprised if we aren't EXPORTING drugs.

What a total waste of money. Instead of going after the drugs we should be figuring out why the hell someone would let themselves use the stuff? Crystal meth? Look around - have you ever met a meth user you'd like to emulate? So why do people do it? We should know, but we've spent all our billions trying to plug a sieve.

[bemildred]

4. No shit? nt

[DaveSZ]

5. Why don't we end this bullshit?

I don't get it.

Conservatives I talk to agree with us that it's bullshit.

[bemildred]

6. You got me.

Prisons and criminal justice in general seem like a very
inefficient way to battle the citizens drug problems, but
what do I know?

[lostnfound]

7. Reasons

1. A convenient pretext for engaging in proxy wars against leftists in Central America.
2. A convenient pretext for putting minorities & rebels in prison.
3. A convenient method of funding off-books CIA projects?
4. Control: a convenient pretext for invading privacy and removing civil liberties.

[ixion]

12. indeed... keyword is pretext...

You're right on the money, so to speak.

[reprobate]

8. End it? Cia started the drug trade, runs it, and profits from it.

They see no reason to end it when it finances all the illegal things they do around the world. They are, once again, out of control and the drug finances were what allowed this by removing financial control from congress and let them become self-funding.

I believe that without the profits from the drug trade they would not be able to distribute briefcases of cash like party favors, to fund coupes in south america, etc.

Cia controls too many politicians for any change in the WOD to happen in the foreseeable future.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. "Why don't we end this bullshit?" Simple answer,

The economy needs the illegal drug money to keep it afloat.

See Narco-Dollars For Dummies. How The Money Works In The Illicit Drug Trade by Catherine Austin Fitts former Assistant Secretary of Housing in the first Bush administration.

Lest you think that my comment about the New York Stock Exchange is too strong, let's look at one event that occurred before our "war on drugs" went into high gear through Plan Colombia, banging heads over narco dollar market share in Latin America.

In late June 1999, numerous news services, including Associated Press, reported that Richard Grasso, Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange flew to Colombia to meet with a spokesperson for Raul Reyes of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), the supposed "narco terrorists" with whom we are now at war.

The purpose of the trip was "to bring a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services" and to discuss foreign investment and the future role of U.S. businesses in Colombia.

Some reading in between the lines said to me that Grasso's mission related to the continued circulation of cocaine capital through the US financial system. FARC, the Colombian rebels, were circulating their profits back into local development without the assistance of the American banking and investment system. Worse yet for the outlook for the US stock market's strength from $500 billion - $1 trillion in annual money laundering - FARC was calling for the decriminalization of cocaine.

Narco Dollars Part 1
Narco Dollars Part 2
Narco Dollars Part 3

[Zorra]

10. Republicans import dope so people won't vote because they are too stoned.

And then they put people in prison for buying and selling the dope that they import, because people in prison can't vote.

The lower the voter turnout, the greater chancesw of republican "victories".

[EST]

11. A trifle too simplistic, but accurate as far as it goes!

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